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We evaluated extended-wear soft contact lens use in 128 aphakic eyes of 113 patients, 44 of whom had been unable to wear conventional contact lenses; 116 eyes (91%) have been successfully fitted and have worn the extended-wear lenses without significant complication. Eleven patients were unable to wear the lens or had to be discontinued for transient lens-related problems. In 103 eyes successfully fitted the lens is removed for cleaning less often than monthly. Ninety six of the 116 eyes fitted have visual acuity as good as, or better than, with aphakic correcting spectacles. The results obtained with the extended-wear soft contact lens are similar to those obtained with intraocular lenses, except for the recent high incidence of inflammation seen after intraocular lens insertion when using ethylene-oxide-sterilized lenses.
W J Stark, and
G P Kracher, and
C L Cowan, and
H R Taylor, and
L W Hirst, and
R T Oyakawa, and
A E Maumenee
January 1980,
Transactions - Pennsylvania Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology,
W J Stark, and
G P Kracher, and
C L Cowan, and
H R Taylor, and
L W Hirst, and
R T Oyakawa, and
A E Maumenee
June 1983,
Acta ophthalmologica,
W J Stark, and
G P Kracher, and
C L Cowan, and
H R Taylor, and
L W Hirst, and
R T Oyakawa, and
A E Maumenee
March 1983,
Journal of the American Optometric Association,
W J Stark, and
G P Kracher, and
C L Cowan, and
H R Taylor, and
L W Hirst, and
R T Oyakawa, and
A E Maumenee
September 1979,
American journal of ophthalmology,
W J Stark, and
G P Kracher, and
C L Cowan, and
H R Taylor, and
L W Hirst, and
R T Oyakawa, and
A E Maumenee
October 1982,
The British journal of ophthalmology,
W J Stark, and
G P Kracher, and
C L Cowan, and
H R Taylor, and
L W Hirst, and
R T Oyakawa, and
A E Maumenee
November 1981,
Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960),
W J Stark, and
G P Kracher, and
C L Cowan, and
H R Taylor, and
L W Hirst, and
R T Oyakawa, and
A E Maumenee
August 1983,
Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960),
W J Stark, and
G P Kracher, and
C L Cowan, and
H R Taylor, and
L W Hirst, and
R T Oyakawa, and
A E Maumenee
February 1979,
Ophthalmology,
W J Stark, and
G P Kracher, and
C L Cowan, and
H R Taylor, and
L W Hirst, and
R T Oyakawa, and
A E Maumenee
January 1980,
Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society,
W J Stark, and
G P Kracher, and
C L Cowan, and
H R Taylor, and
L W Hirst, and
R T Oyakawa, and
A E Maumenee
January 1981,
Contact and intraocular lens medical journal,
